Posted on 06/30/2009 6:55:17 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Four of the September 11 hijackers would have got through America's travel screening procedures introduced since the attacks, the US Secretary of Homelands Security has said.
In an interview in London, Janet Napolitano said screening procedures have been improved since the attacks eight years ago, adding: "All but four of the attackers would have been picked up."
But she said: "You can't thermoseal entry to the US. We have to be ever vigilant."
The US has seen Britain as a potential jumping-off for terrorists attacking the US but Ms Napolitano emphasised the country was a "close ally" and had much to teach the US about fighting radicialisation.
She also ruled out a review of the "visa waiver scheme" operating between Britain and the US, saying the issue was "settled."
Ms Napolitano, the Obama Administration's new Secretary for Homelands Security, was speaking during a press interview following her visit to Britain to meet Alan Johnson, the new Home Secretary for the first time.
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Guess she wants to give the would-be hijackers some hope so they keep trying.
My wife flew back to Vermont from Oregon recently and had her tube of toothpaste confiscated.
Without profiling, I think everyone of them would still make it through, in today’s world.
Only because she fits the non-profile profile so we can be said not to be profiling.
An armed platoon of nude machine gunners could get past that progressive bimbo.
No matter how secure the airports and seaports are, as long as our border with Mexico is porous, the country is in danger.
Good Grief! Why doesn’t she just send them an invitation? Hope and change, you change the HS director, then hope the terrorists can’t read English. Thanks, Jan baby.
It was probably Ultrabright. That stuff burns when it gets in your eyes. She could have taken out both pilots and the stewardesses.
parsy, who gets frightened thinking about these nightmare scenarios.
With luck, the’ll hit Hollywood next time.
Heck yeah Janet, you tell ‘em..! If those guys did anything really eggregious —like attend a VFW function or post here at FR— and they’d be locked up until Kingdom come..!
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